He looks oddly like Geert Wilders

It would be lowkey hilarious if Kennedy’s support spiked based on the fact that he’s a decade younger than either of them.

Asterix & Obelix is a thing, yeah. Mostly as comics with a pop-history setting that a lot of European children have read, including me.

The 60s film adaptations and the 1975 original animated film are actually worth watching imo, the rest is mid. Just like the comic itself since main writer René Goscinny died in the early 80s.

Unfortunately, volume 1 is from 1958 and also depicts black people, so you can guess how they’re made to look. The artstyle is unchanged since then.

I liked the band until I discovered the drummer is or used to be a libertarian. That’s like the least cool thing you can be.

Pentiment was neat.

I wear socks that go above the ankle even in summer because the smaller ones have my shoes chafe the skin on my Achilles’ tendon, causing small but uncomfortable marks

The game actually is Eastern European. The devs are from Eastern Slovakia.

80 year old semi-senile guy vs 80 year old semi-senile guy vs 70 year old guy who literally had brainworms

Yeah, some through the Belarus-Poland border, which made Polish nationalists go wild and go full fortress Europe.

Just as expected really. It’s like a chud’s wet dream come true - finally! an invasion! time to KILL!

Oh hey, my family did this back in early 2010s Italy. The local gold and silver dealership proudly displayed a copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics near the counter, that was fun.

The funny thing is that the 2% goal isn’t even binding. It’s been claimed that it is by the media and government, because it aligns with the state’s goals, but it’s basically militaristic propaganda.

From what I hear from people IRL?

No. Not even because of a belief the west will win. Lots of people seemingly don’t care if they die.

Ah, them. I’ve seen some of their videos already. There’s also Retcon 404 who does old Mecha reviews, I just remembered.

Oh yeah Hazel, forgot about them but they’re definitely a low output, high quality channel. The latter sounds interesting, I’ll check some of these videos out.

Ignoring no smoking signs is actually something I saw locals do fairly often on my trip to Japan

I got offered a two week unpaid trial period. Since I otherwise don’t have anything else recent for the CV, I’ll take it.

It’s 2 PM smh. It’s job interview day. No idea how it’ll go.

The counter-revolution of 1989/1990, market reforms and associated recession and unemployment, Nazi gangs forming out of poor youths attacking leftists (“baseball bat years”), the Party for Democratic Socialism (SED successor, later known as the Left Party after merging with a left-SPD splinter group) getting into coalition governments with social democrats and supporting neoliberal policies leading to a loss of credibility, pro-Russian foreign policy sympathies that only the AfD openly supports, nationalism being seen as the answer to social problems and, of course, racism.

I think there’s a lot of people in a similar situation to mine and yours, probably a lot more than we realize because it’s embarrassing to even talk about

2 years for me, though I started an employment program funded by the Employment office recently. I get a basic subsidy of a couple hundred Euros and like 3/4 of the time there is wasted and/or mind-numbingly boring, but it’s an income and they’re helping me look for a job, write applications, etc. - even if it’s just to escape the boredom.

I know you’re probably American and the state probably doesn’t care much about such stuff, but it might be worth looking into something like it, even if it’s just to force yourself to get used to the horrid rhythm of the 40 hour work week and have something recent on your resume that looks good to the bourgies you have to beg for work to.

there’s actually a German section thereof - I once met one of them who tried to recruit me in Berlin (in English) lol.